Author: Nicole Ahn

Jaewoo "Nicole" Ahn is a senior at Free State High School in Lawrence, Kansas. She serves as an intern for Dr. Wes Crenshaw and is a key contributing author and researcher for his forthcoming series of books titled Consent-Based Sex Education: Parenting Teens for Sexual Competency. Nicole shares her views of adolescence from the trenches edited but uncensored.

According to traditional media, teen culture is weird. We can’t define what “dating” is, we send nudes to each other and think nothing of it, we can’t afford diamonds, we’re always on our phones, and we waste our money on avocado toasts. We’ve detached emotion from our sex lives, make memes, and laugh about our…